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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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There is no place love is not.
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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